Me: Sorry this took so long to update! I'm running on empty at the moment with it being the last week of school.

Hyoma: Is that your excuse?

Hikaru: Yeah, and it's not exactly a HUGE chapter is it?

Me: I'm sorta stalling for time until I find a way to get the three of you together for the (ahem) HUGE climax.

Tsubasa: So you do this to try and keep the readers occupied?

Me: Yup! Well Tsubasa, since you're the only one being nice to me, you can do the disclaimer.

Tsubasa: Sharkey52 doesn't own Metal Fight Beyblade.

Me: Alright, I'll try and think of something for the next chapter, you guys read the story!

The Light and Darkness Chronicles

Chapter Twelve - Train

"Yu. Yu wake up…YU TENDO! … Er…there's a triple ice cream Sunday for you to eat."

"ICE CREAM SUNDAY!" Yu jolted awake, his green eyes shinning "WHERE? WHERE? WHERE?"

"Tone it down! The whole of Japan doesn't need to hear your voice!" Yu looked up and realised his head was resting on Tsubasa's lap, the silver-haired blader being the one who had complained about the noise level. He sat up and looked around. He was stretched out over two seats in a bustling place with a loudspeaker going off.

"Where are we?" he asked.

"The train station" Tsubasa reported "We're waiting for Hikaru and Kenta, remember?" Yu tried to remember. Yeah, he remembered Tsubasa telling him he'd be staying with Kenta as Tsubasa and Hikaru were going…somewhere… something to do with work apparently. And his rude awakening at 5am that morning.

"How long have we been waiting?" Yu asked.

"About half an hour" Tsubasa answered "Ah, there they are." Walking towards them were Hikaru and Kenta. Tsubasa's eyes widened at Hikaru's outfit. That was the outfit she used to wearing in her day as a blader! Well, that was an early morning surprise! Yu though was grinning at the green-haired boy next to her.

"Kenchi!" Yu leapt up from his seat and gave his best friend a brotherly hug. Yu then grabbed his hands and proceeded to spin in circles, dragging a startled Kenta with him.

"And you put up with this every day?" Hikaru raised an eyebrow at her silver-haired colleague.

"Nah, he only does this to poor Kenta" Tsubasa shook his head "Sora and I get off with it. Same reason mostly."

"I can't believe I get to stay at your house for TWO WHOLE WEEKS!" Yu cheered.

"I actually feel sorry for Kenta" Tsubasa murmured, making Hikaru laugh. Thankfully Yu was too busy jumping up and down on the spot to notice.

"How, in the name of the zodiac, did you manage to persuade Kenta's parents to babysit Yu?" Hikaru looked at Tsubasa, still giggling. The silver-haired blader groaned.

"Extensive begging and a lot of excuses" he groaned, checking his watch and standing up "Well, our train's gonna arrive any minute. And I think Kenta's parents are waiting for you Yu." Yu finally let go of Kenta to grab his suitcase that was almost the size of the pint-sized eleven-year-old. It took both him and Kenta to pull it. But just as Tsubasa thought he was going to get away from his young flat-mate, as he turned around Yu hugged his legs, almost tripping him over.

"Bye-bye Tsubasa!" Yu squeaked, acting like someone at least half his age.

"Er…yeah. Goodbye Yu" Despite being very uncomfortable with the situation, Tsubasa put on a smile and wished his friend well. Yu then said goodbye to Hikaru and, after giving the two of them some looks that Yu was going to pay big-time for when they got back, helped Kenta drag his suitcase out of the station. Tsubasa groaned as the older two walked towards the platform.

"Yu is never ever going to let up on this when we get back" Tsubasa groaned.

"We've only just set off and you're already groaning!" Hikaru shook her head "Come on! Two weeks in Koma Village. It'll be the most peaceful two weeks we've ever had!" She then dropped her voice to an inaudible level and muttered:

"Hopefully."

Hikaru was never sure how she, who hadn't been up half as long as Tsubasa that morning, managed to fall asleep on the train. She was pretty sure of what woke her though. After all, when you wake up to find you're lying on the floor of a train and then you discover it's actually the side of the train on the ground, the answer: A Train Crash, is pretty inevitable.

"What happened?" she gasped, sitting up to find she wasn't the only one on the floor. However someone was missing "Tsubasa? Tsubasa where are you?"

"Up here!" Hikaru looked up to see where Tsubasa has called from. He was hanging from one of those yellow metal some-what triangular frames that were used as handlebars by the door that was on the side above them. He quickly scrambled up so he sat on what would have normally been the side of the bar, but now functioned as some sort of a rung.

"You okay?" They both called at the same time "Jinx!" They had said that at the same time also so they didn't try to compete to see who had won the jinx, and instead focused on getting out. Thankfully, the roof had one of those trap-door contraptions so they were all able to climb out of that. On top of a nearby hill, they were able to see that they were at the edge of the mountains, and see their train had well and truly crashed. Half of it was on it's side, and the part that was upright had been run off the rails. On the upturned underside of one of the carriages was a dent that looked even larger than the green hades.

"What in the name of Pegasus caused that?" Tsubasa exclaimed "Not even a charging rhino could cause that dent!"

"Isn't that the carriage next to ours?" Hikaru asked. Tsubasa nodded and ran a hand through his hair.

"It'll take them too long to fix this mess and get a train to Koma Village going" he sighed "One option then."

"What?"

"We walk."

"What?"

"I just said, we walk."

"I know what you said!" Hikaru folded her arms "But that could take days!"

"It'll be faster than waiting" Tsubasa pointed out "And Hyoma needs our help as quickly as possible." Hikaru sighed.

"I suppose" she swung her bag over her shoulder "It's hardly like we're not using to walking for days on end anyway."